Sentences with phrase «shot hit the net»

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«35 Anyone who has rushed the net in tennis to hit a successful shot, or stroked in a long putt, understands Novak's point.

Chelsea star Eden Hazard has explained how he encouraged Willian to alter his shooting style after hitting the post twice against Barcelona before finally finding the back of the net.

Dean Baba netted 19 to lead the Team in scoring while Scott Bagan (16 points) and Zach Nudelman (11 points) both hit clutch shots to either tie the game or take the lead down the stretch and in OT.

He didn't hit it [his shot] into the stand, he hit it into the back of the net.

But his shot came up short and only hit the net.

With four minutes left in the game, the Raptors offense went cold, and Garnett and Pierce — who had played very poorly by their standards for the entire game — each hit big shots to give the Nets a six point lead with less than two minutes to go.

He slumped briefly but recovered, and then he began to break Mac - Kay's heart by hitting back the big first serve — not with desperate little plops designed only to keep the ball in play but with incisively angled shots that sometimes passed MacKay, sometimes caught him halfway to the net, sometimes literally tangled him in his feet.

DENVER (AP) This illustrates just how well things have been going for Nathan MacKinnon: He fanned on a shot, got it back, skated to the other side, launched the puck toward the net, hit a defender and in it goes.

MacKinnon reveled with his teammates when his shot hit a Jets player and went into the net 29 seconds into the extra period.

Bernier was caught by surprise when Nate Thompson's shot hit the boards and bounced into the crease, jumping into the air to avoid sending it back into his own net.

Center Bryan Trottier and top draft choice Mike Bossy, a 75 - goal scorer for the Laval (Quebec) juniors last season, seem to be the only Islander forwards who don't specialize in hitting goal posts or shooting the puck over the net and into the crowd, but Bossy's checking deficiencies may keep him on the bench in many games.

Okposo's one - timer missed, but the puck hit off the boards and landed at O'Reilly's feet as he circled the net and wrapped a shot inside the left post.

Arsenal had scored just 3 goals in our last 4 League games — totalling 360 minutes — but when faced with a 2 - 0 deficit to Liverpool we came back from 2 - 0 down to make a 3 - 2 lead in the space of 6 minutes, so it is not true that we can't score goals.According to Wenger, it was just a hangover from our game against Manchester United when we had 32 shots on goal but only hit the net once.

Depending on how one looks at it, it was either the perfect penalty or a lucky miss for Fabregas, whose shot hit the inside of the post and snuck into the back of the net to give Spain the 4 - 2 win.

Almost as if it was guided by a computer, the shot sliced through several defenders and into a narrow gap between the post and Watford goalkeeper Gomes to hit the back of the net.

asked 6» 1», 185 - pound guard Clayton Custer minutes after shooting a 13 - foot fadeaway and watching from his back as it hit the rim, then the backboard before dropping through the net with 3.6 seconds left for a 63 — 62 second - round win over third - seeded Tennessee.

The Paraguayan seemed to completely miss - hit his shot though it turned out to be a masterstroke, looping over Fernando Prass and into the net.

Conor Sheary's shot as the power play expired should've hit the back of the net.

A spell of attacks followed, and Theo Walcott looked to have been put through one - on - one with the keeper, only for the offside flag to go up, and his shot had of course ended up in the net after hitting the keeper on the way past.

From the side of the eighteen and a near impossible angle, Madison ripped a shot across the goal that hit the side post and landed in the side net for Wonder's first goal.

I've heard fans say need to shoot more and not try walk ball into net, here we have a player who likes to hit it and somehow still not good enough.

With Washington's Brooks Orpik in the penalty box for hooking, Kucherov took a shot that hit Namestnikov and ricocheted into the net at 1:22.

His shot hit the foot of the post, came back at him and rebounded into the Arsenal net for victory.

Scaloni could have put the ball out high into the stands, or just kept possession, but chose to hand it to our opponents and seconds later it fell to Gerrard who hit a stinging low shot from around 30 yards into the bottom corner of the net to take the game into extra time.

Our protagonist had hit rock bottom, his mighty foe (an empty net) had bested him once more, his confidence was shot and his own supporters turned on him.

With Philippe Coutinho, Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembélé wreaking havoc in the Girona defense with their pace, skill and passing, the Blaugrana created chance after chance against a desperate defense that kept scrambling to block shots and stop the ball from hitting the back of the net.

Messi hit an effort just wide, and the closing stages of the first half saw Suarez miscue a shot inside the box, allowing Domenech to gather, before Valencia's Geoffrey Kondogbia sent a shot into the side - netting having combined with Daniel Parejo.

Joleon Lescott heads it straight up into the air, Zabaleta and Vieira both go for the dropping ball it bounces off one of them straight to Dimitrije Injac who hits a sweet shot into the net.

As he adjusted his feet to shoot, Paulinho got in front of Romero, and as Coutinho's shot was heading for the top corner of the net the ball hit Paulinho in an offside position and the attack came to nothing.

With four shots, two hitting the back of the net, he bagged a brace and nearly claimed a deserved hat trick after hitting the woodwork on occasion and earning him the Man of the Match prize and a coveted position on our team.

He slipped a perfect pass to Eriksen eight yards from goal whose shot hit Laporte, bounced back off the Dane and went past Ederson into the net to give us a lifeline as we went in 2 - 1 behind at the break.

His shot hit side netting and sooner rather than later he should start to put these clear chances away.

Christian Atsu's driven effort was blocked by Maya Yoshida, but with Forster already diving to his left, Hayden's first - time shot wrong - footed the goalkeeper and hit the back of the net.

She had a wide open net after a shot hit of the post and came to her just inside the 5 - yard box.

The Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist hit 40 out of 50 traps to secure the silver medal, finishing three behind Italy's Daniele Resca, whose 43 successful shots netted him a first world title.

Jakkapan and Pokkhao opened up the visitors before Adisak's powerful shot hit the side - netting.

Suarez got a chance to score but his shot hit the back of opponent's net in 12th minute.

A bold Tottenham to win to nil wager in this one would return a 5/1 shot at William Hill, but fancying both teams to hit the back of the net is probably going to have more appeal.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a 13/8 shot to hit the back of the net in this one with Marcus Rashford at 12/5.

Fabregas lost possession, although it looked like he may have been fouled, and Huntelaar played a one two with Draxler before hitting a shot through Gary Cahill's legs and in to the net.

Zarate failed to take the best chance of the game, shooting wide rather than hitting the back of the net.

As soon as Dybala's shot hit the back of the net, the then - league leaders were already dwindling down the table.

The shot hit nothing but net.

The net play side of things, however, isn't nearly as fine tuned and feels unfairly balanced in favour of net rushers; it's far easier to put away an easy volley into the open court than it is to hit a pin - point accurate passing shot with your player on the run, game after game.

Armed apes shoot at people, catch them in nets, hit them, and chase some over a small cliff, others into a pit.